ALEXANDER THE GREAT!!! THE TRUTH AND THE FILTHY LIES!!!
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF THE GREAT ALEXANDER (AFTER GREAT RESEARCH!)
Alexander the Great, the greatest military commander of antiquity, was born on 20/21 July 356 BC in Pella. His parents were King Philip II of Macedon and Princess Olympias of Epirus. He was taught by the foremost philosopher Aristotle, who instilled in him a love for Ellenik education, science, and Homer. He ascended the throne of Macedon in 336 BC at the age of twenty, following the assassination of his father.
In 334 BC he crossed the Hellespont and launched his great campaign. He achieved historic victories at the Granicus, Issus, and Gaugamela, overthrowing the mighty Persian Empire. Alexander the Great was proclaimed Pharaoh of Egypt in 332 BC at Memphis, where he was welcomed as a liberator from the Persian yoke. The title of Pharaoh represented divine authority and secured absolute legitimacy among the Egyptian people, establishing him as sovereign on both the political and religious levels.
His conquests reached the banks of the Indus River. Along his march he founded numerous cities, the most famous being the Alexandrias, and contributed to the spread of Ellenik civilization in the East, ushering in the Ellenistic period. Thanks to this expansion, the Ellenik language became the international language of the age. This enabled the Apostle Paul and the Evangelists to spread the message of Christianity throughout the known world.
He died in Babylon in June 323 BC, before he could complete his plans for new campaigns. The cause of his death remains to this day a subject of research, under curious and even suspicious circumstances—especially when we consider how his wives, children, and mother met their ends.
His wife Roxane and son Alexander IV were murdered on the orders of Cassander in 310 BC at Amphipolis, where they had been imprisoned by Glaukias. Heracles, Alexander’s son by his other wife Barsine, was assassinated by the general Polyperchon after being bribed by Cassander. Stateira (daughter of Darius) and her sister Drypetis, his second wife, were murdered immediately after Alexander’s death in Babylon. His mother Olympias was put to death in 316 BC after a trial, again on the orders of Cassander, who had besieged her at Pydna. His sister Cleopatra was assassinated at Sardis in 308 BC on the orders of Antigonus.
Below are recorded historical events that extol his ethos, integrity, purity, self-sacrifice, humility, bravery, and greatness:
When the Ellin general named Philoxenus offered Alexander two very beautiful young men as a gift (Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Alexander-Caesar), the king became so enraged that he asked his friend what shameful act he had ever seen in him to propose such disgraceful things. He grew even angrier at the insult and demanded punishment.
Alexander maintained a very strict moral code regarding his behavior toward prisoners and slaves. According to Plutarch, when he learned that two young men from Macedon, Damon and Timotheus, had raped the wives of some mercenaries, he became furious and demanded their immediate punishment. He sent a letter to General Parmenion demanding that, if their guilt was proven, they be executed like wild beasts that harm human beings. He emphasized that he himself had not even looked upon the beautiful wife of Darius, nor had he permitted her beauty to be discussed in his presence.
In Jewish Antiquities (Book 11), Josephus describes Alexander’s visit to Jerusalem after the successful sieges of Tyre and Gaza. The High Priest Jaddus met him; Alexander prostrated himself before the Name of God, entered the Temple of Solomon, and offered sacrifice according to the instructions of the Jewish priests. The priests showed him the book of the prophet Daniel, which foretold that an Ellin (symbolized as a goat in the vision) would destroy the powerful Persian Empire. Alexander rejoiced, believing the prophecy referred to himself and his conquests.
The Jews knew perfectly well that he was the one prophesied by the Prophet Daniel in the Old Testament (Daniel chapter 10). For this very reason they received him with full awareness that he was the chosen instrument of the Lord, a chosen vessel, since the Lord together with Archangel Michael fought alongside Alexander. When he arrived in Jerusalem the entire Sanhedrin was present, and the High Priests prostrated themselves before him—yes, they prostrated themselves—because they knew from their prophet Daniel, whom they greatly revered, that Alexander was not an ordinary king and general but one chosen by the God in whom they believed. For this reason they permitted him, though a Ellenik ethnic who believed in the One God as a spiritual descendant of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to offer sacrifice in the Temple of the Law. Today no one should dare tell contemporary Jews that their ancestors prostrated themselves before Alexander, since their Law explicitly forbade prostration before a human being, especially an Ellin ethnic. All this occurred through the ineffable Economy of God: Alexander’s campaign was neither accidental nor ordinary, but a divine campaign with Alexander as its instrument, so that the way might be opened for the word of the Holy Gospel to be spread throughout the then-known world some 356 years later.
In addition to the Life of Saint Andrew the Fool for Christ, the story of Alexander pursuing and locking away the “impure nations” (Gog and Magog) behind inaccessible gates rests on a vast tradition. The main sources include the Revelation of Methodius (Pseudo-Methodius), which describes how Alexander shut the unclean nations in the northern mountains; the Islamic Quran (Surah Al-Kahf), where Alexander is identified with the mysterious “Dhul-Qarnayn” (the Two-Horned One), who with God’s help builds an impenetrable wall of iron and copper to enclose Gog and Magog; the Syriac Alexander Romance (the “Legend of Alexander”), which recounts the construction of the gates at the Caspian Gates; the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, who mentions iron gates built by Alexander in a pass of the Caucasus (usually placed at Darial) to keep out wild hordes; and various later Greek and Latin medieval chroniclers who incorporated the legend, linking the Macedonian commander to the prophecy of Ezekiel concerning the nations of Gog and Magog.
The epic siege of the Mallians, where Alexander was the first to rush onto the enemy walls and fought alone until he was gravely wounded, is described in detail in the works of ancient historians. The chief sources are Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander (Book VI), which recounts how he scaled the walls of the Mallian city, broke the ladder, slew the defenders, and fought alone from above while his companions could not reach him until he received an arrow in the chest; Quintus Curtius Rufus’ History of Alexander (Book IX); and Plutarch’s Parallel Lives: Alexander. This is one of the most emblematic and moving stories of leadership. It captures his ability to inspire and identify completely with his soldiers under the most extreme conditions.
During the catastrophic return from India in the autumn of 325 BC, while crossing the inhospitable and waterless desert of Gedrosia (present-day Balochistan), some soldiers found some water in a small spring and collected it in a helmet to offer their king. Instead of drinking it himself, Alexander poured it out onto the sand before the astonished eyes of his troops. According to Arrian, he told them it was impossible for him to drink while his men suffered from thirst, and that if there was not enough for all, no one should have any. This gesture was not merely symbolic self-sacrifice. It had an immediate impact on the army. The fact that the King refused to quench his thirst and endured the same hardships as the ordinary soldiers raised their morale and gave them the courage and strength to continue the march through the desert.
According to tradition, before he died the Great Alexander asked his generals for three last wishes: that his physicians should carry his coffin, to show that even the best healers are powerless before death; that his treasure should be scattered along the road, so the world would understand that earthly wealth remains on earth; and that his hands should hang outside the coffin, as a symbol that he came into this world empty-handed and would leave it empty-handed, taking nothing with him.
He also met Diogenes. Alexander cannot be explained, and his work is a world-historical phenomenon. His full name reveals his true identity: Great Alexander. He is not to be called “Greatest,” for the Greatest is God alone.
After the murder (not assassination) of Cleitus—on account of the highest insult and blasphemy—Alexander underwent a three-day complete fast and abstinence in repentance, following the example of the Prophet-King David. He took yet another spiritual step, reckoning himself as nothing, as zero, as worthless. He drew even closer to the acceptance and sense of the presence and omnipotence of God, even more so, just as the Prophet-King David expressed this marvelous experience and revelation in his sacred and unsurpassable Psalms. Alexander is, before Christ, one of our fathers; he belongs to the choir of the Righteous Greeks together with Socrates and Plato. He is among the first who received the preaching of the Honorable Forerunner in Hades and followed Christ in the Resurrection and the Heavenly Kingdom. And how could he not be, since around 536 BC the Prophet Daniel wrote (chapter 10): “And again one having the appearance of a man touched me and strengthened me. And he said, ‘O man greatly beloved, fear not, be strong and of good courage.’ … And he said, ‘Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of the kingdom of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come…’” While he was a Greek pagan, he believed in the One God, who chose him as a vessel in His ineffable Economy and philanthropy. For this reason he was called Great.
Many called him a chauvinist, compared him to Genghis Khan, or portrayed him as a homosexual. Those who did so were precisely the followers of falsehood, darkness, and deceit. No one delved deeply into the historical truths. No one understood that after the death of Cleitus he advanced spiritually, reckoning himself as nothing. Modern historians and directors distort his image completely because they cannot digest this. Yet Alexander is a pre-Christian father of ours, a chosen instrument of the divine plan that prepared the way for the spread of the Gospel. This is the truth about the life and character of the Great Alexander.
